Hale O Laau Hua

10/16/2024

The roof is fixed, after power and cable connections. Roof panel replaced as well as the broken rafters and purlin.

09/28/2024

Roof repair hopefully happening soon - but there is no water damage inside that I can see.

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05/29/2024

I'll continue updating pictures of the storm damage in the same album that I mentioned earlier (which is in my personal account, but public). Having called the electric company Tuesday 5/21, I was told I had 5 days to get this done without having to go into engineering and permitting. Having no idea how to get that done I asked my neighbor at home for recommendations and for getting the tree off the house got Tree Works recommended. Called them Wednesday, the foreman came the same day, the crew came Thursday and got the tree debris off the house. I know an electrician who came by (he lives close), looked at it and we bought most of the parts, he installed the new meter panel and what goes with it Friday, called the electric company back Friday (they had given me until Tuesday because Monday was Memorial Day) and their inspector came that night (on his way home), and the electric company connected the power line Saturday. After the power line was reconnected I called the cable company (Internet and TV), but they didn't work over the long weekend, but connected the cable today. There still is a lot of lychee tree debris in part of the front yard and most of the mauka side yard, but it's functional again (definitely more functional than the people who stayed there last week had to deal with, but they were very well able to work around it - with some help from neighbors)

05/16/2024

Updated pictures on Hale O Laau Hua damage, taken on 5/15/24:

05/13/2024

Storm damage - a lychee tree fell over (the first 2 pictures and the last one). The third picture shows that the whole root ball came out, more branch breakage in the 4th, then the leaves swept down by the rain in 2 areas, and the last picture should really be the first. I had a lot of help from one of my neighbors, otherwise I wouldn't even have gotten to see the root ball. - And I might not even know about this yet if it hadn't been for another neighbor who called me to tell me.

03/30/2024

Hale o laau hua is still available for
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Hale O Laau Hua is a vacation home rental in a residential neighborhood in Hilo on Hawai'i Island

03/18/2024

Calendar update:

02/21/2024

A few more things were fixed in the meantime, and there's a calendar update

12/09/2023

One more of the things that the inspection report mentioned before I bought the house was fixed today. The 3-way switch of the carport light. I just left the inside one on all the time until now because I only needed to switch the carport light on and off when outside (and told previous renters to just do the same).

09/18/2023

Thought I had already posted the )so far) 2024 calendar.

02/13/2023

There is a distant ocean view from the top of the back yard

11/01/2022

Somebody asked for current pictures of the living room. I have the couch diagonal in it at the moment, but it has felt pads under it's feet now so I can move it by myself as long as it isn't far.

06/01/2022

Hale O Laau Hua will be occupied starting June 1. I do not yet know for how long, but it may be a while

04/05/2022

After moving some furniture with a some help yesterday (mahalo nui loa Alexis and Dylan) there is now a futon couch in the living room rather than a bed substituting for a couch, and beds switched around.

03/15/2022

More current picture of the living room and from outside

02/16/2022

As somebody asked about how the kitchen is equipped I took some pictures.

11/29/2021

Calendar update